Robert Arthur
Biography
Robert A. Arthur, Jr. (1909–1969) was a mystery and speculative fiction writer known for The Mysterious Traveler and Murder by Experts radio series and his Three Investigators series of novels.
Between 1930 and 1940, his stories were published in Amazing Stories, Argosy All-Story Weekly, Black Mask, Collier's, Detective Fiction Weekly, Detective Tales, Double Detective, The Illustrated Detective Magazine, Mystery, The Phantom Detective, The Shadow, Startling Stories, Street & Smith Mystery Reader, Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine, Thrilling Detective, Unknown Worlds and Wonder Stories.
From the 1950s onwards, he was an occasional editor of Hitchcock fiction anthologies. He also wrote a number of mystery books for children.
Filmography
Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Jokester (19/Oct/1958) - writer: story
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Final Arrangements (20/Jun/1961) - writer: teleplay
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour...
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - The Cadaver (29/Nov/1963) - writer: story
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Good-Bye, George (13/Dec/1963) - writer: story
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- Death Is a Dream (June 1957)
- The Glass Bridge (July 1957)
- High Dive, Low Motive (September 1958)
Hitchcock Fiction Anthologies
- "The Jokester" in Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957)
- "Getting Rid of George" in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: My Favorites in Suspense (1959)
- "Death Is a Dream" in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night (1961)
- "An Attractive Family" in Alfred Hitchcock's A Hangman's Dozen (1962)
- "The Haunted Trailer" in Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery (1962)
- "The Wonderful Day" in Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery (1962)
- "Obstinate Uncle Otis" in Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery (1962)
- "...Said Jack the Ripper" in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons from My Closet (1963)
- "Just a Dreamer" in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1963)
- "No One on the Line" in Alfred Hitchcock's Once Upon a Dreadful Time (1964)
- "Call for Help" in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (1965)
- "Eyewitness" in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense (1967)
- "The Knife" in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me (1967)
- "The Glass Bridge" in Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine (May 1979)
- "You Can Die Laughing" in Alfred Hitchcock's A Mystery By the Tale (1986)
Hitchcock Merchandise
- Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: My Favorites in Suspense (1959) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful (May 1961) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery (1962) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1963) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries (1963) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (1965) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock's Sinister Spies (1966) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbinders in Suspense (1967) - Editor
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Stay Awake By (1971) - Editor
- The "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators" Series - Creator
